The Miami Hurricane -- January 28, 2010

The Miami Vol. 88, Issue 3 | Jan. 28 - Feb. 1, 2010

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HELPING HANDS: Senior Peggy Laguerre sorts donations of food and supplies at United Way that will be sent to the survivors of Haiti’s earthquake.JESSE SWANSON // The Miami Hurricane

Outside of a warehouse in the city of Doral, UM senior, Peggy Laguerre stood in front of a mountain of pack-ages, bags and suitcases filled with do-nations for Haiti from toiletries to toys

to spoons. On Saturday, volunteer supervisors told Laguerre and 43 other students they needed to hurry up before the rain set in. If the rain came the items would be ruined and thrown away.

“I felt intimidated,” she said. “The thought of all

that stuff going into the trash was a horrible thought. All that effort to gather [the donations] would be in vain.”

The student volunteers quickly had to sort and package the donations. Laguerre got a box, looked at the massive pile, then up at the sky.

“Okay, let’s get to it,” she thought.Laguerre and the students worked within only

an hour and a half to reduce the pile to nothing.“At the end of the day, I can’t believe we went

through this whole thing,” said Sherlley Sanon, pres-ident of the Haitian Student Organization (HSO).

BY ANDREA CONCEPCION | CONTRIBUTING WRITER

UnitedUnited inin reliefrelief

WHERE’S THE CHANGE?OBAMA’S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE WAS MORE

OF THE SAME PAGE 5

BRING ON THE SCREENPLAYSTHE WRITER OF ‘BRING IT ON’ OFFERS THE

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME PAGE 7

SENIORS ON THE RISEJIMMY GRAHAM AND DARRYL SHARPTON

COMPETE IN THE SENIOR BOWL PAGE 9

SEE HAITI, PAGE 4

Volunteers donate their time packaging goods for Haiti

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Throw away that pre-conceived notion that three square meals a day is the best dietary prototype when it comes to eating. As Ameri-

cans, we usually like to think that we do things best, but just take a look around at the world’s waistlines and you’ll see that our eating pat-terns are not ideal.

Having lived in Spain and Argentina for extended periods of time, I was left perplexed to why people stayed so skinny in cultures punctuated by hanging salted pig legs and fried bread pockets stuffed with meats and cheeses. These people’s success lies in the fact

that they move. People in foreign cities may not be as avid gym members, but they walk many miles a day. This paired with an eating pattern allotting for portion control and more frequent meals keeps their metabolism con-stantly moving and more balanced.

Try splitting your total caloric intake for the day among five to six meals instead of your usual three. By doing so, you will help thwart those extreme hunger urges that force you to grab the closest thing to eat, usually being an unhealthy snack that will add empty calories to your diet. By eating every two to three hours, you will help keep your blood sugar levels balanced which will stop you from overeating. Another benefit to eating more often is that you have a much better opportunity to take in all the nutrients and

RDA’s (recommended daily allowance) of carbs, proteins and fats.

A basic guideline that will work for most people, minus athletes and the obese, is a daily caloric intake of 20-30 percent fats, 50-65 percent carbohydrates and 20-25 percent protein. Try to eat as varied as pos-sible taking in lots of fruits and vegetables that have many bodily benefits from getting rid of pimples to improving vision. When eating more often, you will even burn a few extra calories by keeping your digestive tract in motion all day long!

Jeremy Albelda is a senior exercise physiology major and a personal trainer. E-mail health questions to him at [email protected].

Stop dieting; eating more often could help you lose weightThe healthy life

JEREMY ALBELDACONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

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Imagine waking up to a slew of insults and then, instead of finding time to deal with it, all you can find is a full schedule of classes. Such is the life of college student-turned-pol-itician, junior Stephen Murray.

As a newly elected member to the Coconut Grove Village Council, he has had to find a balance among his college life, work life, social life and now, his political life.

After posting a response to City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff’s state-ment about a cyclist that was killed by a drunk driver in the area of Key Biscayne that he represents, Murray received a lot of negative feedback.

“One of the first things I real-ized before running was that there would always be people who dis-agreed with me,” Murray said.

However, Murray kept his head up and found positive responses soon after the original negative com-ments.

“By the time I came home from class, there was even more positive feedback and many calls from other people in the community praising me for standing up for what I be-lieved in,” he said.

While constantly being in the public eye, often facing criticism and rarely having a moment of free time may not seem like the ideal life for a

college student, but Murray does not seem to mind.

“I saw a lot of real problems in the West Grove area and the City of Miami was doing an insufficient job of addressing them, so I decided to do something about it,” Murray said of his position on the council.

During the campaign period last November, he had his first issues with juggling time between school and politics. Professor of political science Dr. Ramon de Arrigunaga taught Murray while he was run-ning for office.

“He had to miss a few classes for political campaign work and rallies, but overall, his participation and victory in the election enhanced the learning in class,” de Arrigunaga said.

Murray has been at this bal-ancing act for quite some time; now the only difference is the title he can place with his name.

“I’m an activist. I’ve been in-volved in campaigns to help people for a while now, so the only real physical change is a two-hour meet-ing each month that I have to at-tend,” he said.

Maria Lorca, Murray’s former international studies and economics professor, knew Murray was some-thing special when he turned in a paper about the mismanagement of waste issues in New York City.

“His paper really stood out and caught my eye,” she said. “Most stu-dents that take my intro class usually write papers about general econom-ics.”

When Murray decided to run for office at 21, he knew the cards were stacked against him. Even his professors like Lorca questioned his ability to commit time to both school and his potential seat in office.

Murray uses organization as the key to staying on top of his stud-ies, as well as success on the political front and in his job as a research/teaching assistant at the School of Business. Another tool he uses is ap-plication of his tasks to more than one of these time constraints.

“Sometimes I get lucky and get

an assignment I can use politically. For example, just last week I used an English assignment I had written as a post on my Web site,” he said.

Right now, Murray is working on proposing several subcommittees to address the problems Coconut Grove is facing, while planning to graduate next May.

For more information on Ste-phen Murray and his causes, visit www.stephenmurrayactivism.org.

Colleen Dourney may be contacted a [email protected].

Keeping everything together

LINDSAY BROWN // The Miami Hurricane

WITH A SMILE: Senior political science major Stephen Murray serves as the youngest member of the Coconut Grove City Council.

Student politician stays organizedBY COLLEEN DOURNEYCONTRIBUTING NEWS WRITER

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January 28 - February 1, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE NEWS 3

One of the most dangerous aspects to the war on terror is the unpredictably of in-surgency attacks. Explaining and predict-ing why insurgency strikes happen when they are so erratic in nature, is something the U.S. military, political scientists and television pundits struggle with every day. From a field known more for numbers than case studies comes a possible solution.

University of Miami physicist Dr. Neal Johnson and his team of researchers have developed a model that they believe will predict the likelihood, timing and strength of where and when the enemy will be next.

“We have found a unified model of modern insurgent wars that shows a fun-damental pattern in the apparent chaos of wars,” said Johnson, the principal investi-gator of the study. “In practical terms, our analysis can be used to create and explore scenarios, make predictions and assess risks, for present and future wars.”

The basic premise of Johnson’s study is that insurgency groups of all types, from terrorists in Afghanistan to Northern Ire-land, form fluid networks and groups that are not ruled by a hierarchical system of any kind, but are always shifting and changing. Johnson and other researchers studied the size and timing of 54,679 violent events re-ported in nine countries.

“Despite the many different discus-sions of various wars, different historical features, tribes, geography and cause, we find that the way humans fight modern (present and probably future) wars is the same,” Johnson said. “Just like traffic pat-terns in Tokyo, London and Miami are pretty much the same.”

The study, entitled “Common Ecology Quantifies Human Insurgency,” was pub-lished in the scientific journal “Nature,” and is the first of its kind.

“It’s so common place to hear so many different theories on insurgencies,” John-son said. “I’m used to the physics perspec-tive, you have to look at the data. You have to compare your theories to the numbers. A lot of theories we hear in the media are plausible, but we didn’t need them at all to explain this data, there’s a pattern here.”

Johnson recognizes that terrorist at-tacks are difficult to predict, but says that

they are only unpredictable when viewed through the lens of a hierarchical model. His study is based on a more ecological perspective, and looks at the way people and animals, not just terrorists, interact in informal situations.

Johnson says that attacks will be clus-tered, and that with his model there might be a way to deduce how strong or weak a terrorist group is feeling.

According to Dr. Joseph Parent, a professor of political science at UM who specializes in security studies, the data sets presented in Johnson’s study are promis-ing.

“Although much work remains to be done on the subject, this is an exciting time to try to discover solutions to pressing problems like terrorism and insurgency,” Parent wrote in an e-mail with The Miami Hurricane. “How many other researchers have the potential to save so many lives?”

Saving lives is what Johnson hopes his study might lead to. The research presented may not be the end all solution to predict-ing terrorist attacks, but it is a step towards a better understanding of the chaos that has cost so many Americans their lives.

Laura Edwins may be contacted at [email protected].

Predicting bullets and bombs

CAYLA NIMMO // The Miami Hurricane

CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS: Physicist Dr. Neal Johnson’s study on predicting insurgency attacks was recently published in “Nature.” Johnson’s study is unique in that it uses data sets, rather than case studies to support its argument.

Physicist models the patterns of terrorismBY LAURA EDWINSOF THE STAFF

Part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy was his ability to communicate an idea to a captivated audience.

“If a man hasn’t discovered some-thing that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live,” he once said during a speech on civil rights.

Five minority students from South Florida high schools will compete in an oratorical competition this Friday that will test their ability to deliver an emphat-ic, inspirational speech in the same style of Dr. King.

The event, sponsored by the histori-cally black Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, will feature $250 and $100 prizes for the first and second place winners of the competition.The event is significant in that Dr. King himself was a member of the fraternity. Actually being selected to be a contestant, is a feat in itself.

“This is an event that will show-case their writing and speaking skills in front of a large crowd,” said Jeremy Lad-son, president of Alpha Phi Alpha. “It’s something they wouldn’t get to do in high school.”

Friday will mark the second time the fraternity has held the event, sponsored by the Butler Center for Service and Leader-ship, the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and United Black Students.

Last year’s winner, Leonard Thomp-son, applied his scholarship to the Univer-sity of Florida.

“I was pushing for him to come to UM,” said Lionel Moise, Chairman of the event, “But we will always keep in touch with the winners to mentor them.”

Ramon Galiana may be contacted at [email protected].

Living the dreamHigh schoolers compete in speech competition in honor of Dr. King BY RAMON GALIANANEWS EDITOR

IF YOU GO

WHERE: School of Architecture, Glasglow Lecture Hall

WHEN: Friday, 7 p.m.

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HSO, together with Butler Center for Service and Leader-ship, has provided volunteer opportunities for students at the United Way warehouse for Haitian relief efforts.

After the earthquake hit, United Way called Keith Fletch-er, Director of the Butler Center, asking for volunteers. Claire Heckerman, student volunteer coordinator for Haiti relief said that students could go whenever they want- she would person-ally provide them with directions and details on what to ex-pect. All students have to do is call the Butler Center.

Peggy Laguerre had taken two hours of her Wednesdays to devote to the warehouse. She was motivated to stop feeling depressed and start taking action.

“I’ll put enough effort I can for the time I’m there,” she said.

Local churches, firehouses, libraries and community centers had donations they sent to the warehouse, which was separated, packaged, boxed, wrapped and put into crates. The crates were hauled off by forklifts into semi-trucks which trans-ported the items to the facility in Homestead where planes flew to Haiti.

When junior HSO member Rosandra Walker went to the warehouse, a lot went through her mind. She saw what her organization was doing as a bittersweet moment.

“Wow, it had come to this for us to finally take notice,” she said. “Though, it really impressed me that people who did not have any connection to Haiti came to volunteer.”

HSO held a meeting last Wednesday with one represen-tative from each student organization to discuss ways to help out with Haiti relief. Student organizations and HSO will be linked by a fundraising campaign and donation drive, coordi-nated through the Butler Center.

Fundraising will include t-shirts and bake sales. As of Wednesday, t-shirts with various words of encouragement such as “unity”, “solidarity” and “strength” are being sold in the Butler Center, located in UC 240. Organizations can sign up or help sell baked goods in the UC Breezeway for Tuesdays and Thursdays.

“We’re asking student organizations to incorporate Haiti

relief to their ongoing or future events,” HSO president Sanon said.

For the donation drive, designated carts will be around campus. On the weekend, student organizations can separate and wrap donations to be shipped to the United Way ware-house. The Butler Center will put a list of volunteer opportu-nities within the community on the Butler Center and Canes Helping Haiti Web site, which will launch in February.

With students settling into classes, freshmen not having cars and many unaware of volunteer opportunities, the num-ber of students at the warehouse on weekdays may dwindle.

“As time goes on, you never know the level of response to things,” Laguerre said. “I’m not sure what to expect.”

Andrea Concepcion may be contacted at [email protected]

HAITI FROM PAGE 1

WATER EVERYWHERE: A room fi lled with crates of donated water bottles waiting to be shipped to Haiti. JESSE SWANSON // The Miami Hurricane

HOW TO HELP

Volunteer at the United Way warehouse, weekdays 7 a.m.- 7 p.m. 11500 NW 25th street.

Bring shoes to the IM Fields Saturday 6 - 9 p.m. for the Sigma Chi walk

Buy t-shirts from the Butler center UC 240, for $10

Buy goods at the Bake sale for the student organizations from 11 a.m. -2 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, beginning today in the breezeway.

Log on to THEMIAMIHURRICANE.COM to learn how

to help Haiti.

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January 28 - February 1, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE OPINION 5

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UP!speak

What is the diff erence in your fall and spring

semester?

KELSEY PINAULTSophomore

“I actually got the classes I wanted!”

JAVIER FARINASJunior

“This semester I’m taking less credits in the hope of having more free time.”

MATTHEW JONESSophomore

“There is a lot more work than last semester.”

RACHEL ROFESophomore

“I’m in a sorority and there are a lot of girls that joined this semester. So I’m very

excited to meet them all.”Speak Up answers are edited for

clarity, brevity and accuracy.

compiled byKyli Singh

The beginning of this spring semester was delayed one day as Marin Luther King Day is a na-tional holiday. While this break is appreciated, the academic spring schedule needs to reflect this postponed start.

Classes that only meet once a week on Mondays are put at a disadvantage by this schedule be-cause students will not attend the first day of class until the follow-ing week. Therefore, they only have two days to decide if they want to drop the class and replace it with another course to meet the “add” deadline.

Students do have a longer time to drop the course, until Feb. 3, but this might not be an option if they can’t add another course.

Dropping a course is not an alter-native for students when a lack of credits would affect scholarships and graduation time.

The administration should move back this add day by a week, allowing students in this situation experience a class twice. This would let them make an educated decision about their academic course load.

There are consequences with delaying the add date. If you move back the add date, the drop deadline needs to be pushed back an equal amount of time. Stu-dents that enter a new class still need to attend it before they can determine if they want to keep it on their schedule.

This change would affect

scholarship money for some at the university. For example, the Bright Futures scholarship for Florida residents that go to an in-state school is now awarded on a per credit basis. The state will not give this money to students un-til after the add/drop dates have passed.

However, if a student’s only option is to drop a class and can-not add a new class because the deadline has passed, they will receive less money anyway. If a student stays in a class they do not want to take why should the state pay for it?

Editorials represent the majority view of The Miami Hurricane editorial staff.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Delay the add date

We did the ritualistic dances, the chanting and the praying. We

casted the Great W. Demon out and elected the almighty savior. He was unlike all those who had come before. He would bring a new kind of politics to Washington. He would lead us out of the quagmire in Iraq and expand health care coverage to millions

of uninsured Americans. He stood in front of Greek columns.

Americans clearly erred in putting their faith in an individual who cited majoring in international relations at Columbia University as foreign policy experience. Obama’s lack of executive experience should have disqualified him from being an agency or department head. Nevertheless, the voters in their enduring wisdom declared him competent enough to hold the highest office in the land.

The Obama camp’s winning argument… John F. Kennedy. They expected voters to ignore the fact that Kennedy served a full Senate term and three House terms compared to Obama’s incomplete Senate term. Voters also didn’t consider the reality that the role of Chief Executive has grown expo-nentially more complex and consequential.

There can no longer be doubt. Obama’s presidency is marked by its failures more than its successes. Despite possessing remarkable reserves of political capital at the outset of his presidency, Obama has failed to bring about the positive change he promised in his campaign. Not only could Obama not convince politicians in Washing-ton to stop playing their “politics as usual” game, he’s demonstrated that his political gaming skills match his bowling skill: at the level of the “Special Olympics or something.”

Josh Kornfield is a sophomore majoring in international studies and political science. He may be contacted at [email protected].

The sorry state of the union

JOSH KORNFIELDCONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

POLL RESULTS: Is Student Government doing an eff ective job?

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No4%Total Voters: 25

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OPINION Obama’s presidency is marked

by its failures more than its successes.

-Josh Kornfield,Contributing Columnist”

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January 28 - February 1, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE EDGE 7

From the creator of the notorious cheerleading cult classic “Bring it On,” comes a competition that could jump start the career of an aspiring young screenwriter. Jessica Bendinger knows firsthand how hard it can be to make it in the film industry. She pitched “Bring it On” 27 times before it was bought by Universal Stu-dios and now she is offering one lucky writer the big break she never had.

Bendinger is holding a screenwriting competi-tion where students are invited to adapt a scene of her new book, “The Seven Rays,” into a screenplay. The winner will receive a one-on-one script consul-tation by Bendinger, a huge opportunity in a busi-ness that is nearly impossible to break into.

“I enjoy teaching screenwriting so much,” Bend-inger said in an interview with The Miami Hurricane,

“and to mentor a young screenwriter, I thought, what a cool opportunity to open what is normally a VIP process to an aspiring writer.”

Bendinger is currently in the process of adapting “The Seven Rays” for the screen.

She feels that adaptation is an important skill writers should master and that

mentorship can be a useful stepping stone in getting original work read by Hollywood executives.

“If you don’t have a contact, you’re not getting your foot in the door,” said Daryl Axelrod, a UM alumnus with a master’s degree in film theory. “The film indus-try is really closed and difficult to get meetings in unless you know somebody.”

Not only will Bendinger’s grand prize winner find a mentor,

but five second-place prize winners will get the chance of a lifetime: to

pitch their own original scripts to film ex-ecutives.

In addition to “Bring it On” and “The Seven Rays,” Bendinger has written for “Sex

in the City” and the movie “Aquamarine.” She also wrote and directed “Stick It,” a film she called

her “love letter to gymnastics.” In the past she has mentored other young writers, a process she finds worthwhile.

“I want to give what I didn’t have. I struggled to find a mentor in Hollywood,” she said. “It’s ex-tremely rewarding when you connect with someone

who is really talented.”Though she met rejection initially, Bend-

inger’s “Bring it On” has become a “popcorn movie classic,” and her successful career has led

her to a place where she can provide a similar opportunity to another aspiring writer.

Laura Edwins may be contacted at [email protected].

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with the writer

of ‘Bring it On’

BY LAURA EDWINSOF THE STAFF

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Log on to thesevenrays.com to read the fi rst chapter of “The Seven Rays,” for free.

Adapt a scene into a two to fi ve page written screenplay.

Submit the entry at www.withoutabox.com/login/8612 by Feb. 15 by 12 a.m. PST.

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January 28 - February 1, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE SPORTS 9

This weekend, fans will be watching more than just former Hurricane greats like Andre Johnson, Frank Gore, Antrel Rolle and Brandon Meriweath-er. There were 10 former Hurri-canes selected to the Pro Bowl, the most from any college. But there are two more former Hur-ricanes that will be making plays on the gridiron as well, just not at Sun Life Stadium on Sunday night.

Tight end Jimmy Graham and lineback-er Darryl S h a r p t o n will be showing off their skills at 4 p.m. on

Saturday at Ladd-Peebles Sta-dium located in Mobile, Ala. for the Senior Bowl.

“I’m very excited to play in the Senior Bowl,” Sharpton said. “It’s an honor to play with all these stars and the talent and competition is truly great and only going to make me better.”

There will be over 800 gen-eral managers, coaches, scouts and front office personnel from all 32 NFL teams on hand to evaluate the 100 seniors in prep-aration for the 2010 NFL Draft in April.

Graham, who played foot-ball for the first time since high school after starring four years on the Hurricanes basketball

team, was second on the team in touchdown receptions

with five. The 6-foot-8-inch, 260 pound tight end had his two biggest catches of his career against two premiere

teams in Georgia Tech and Oklahoma.

Miami won both of

t h o s e games.

“It’s amazing to think how everything has really fallen in place for me,” Graham said. “I just started playing football again six months ago and I have come a long long way. Scouts keep telling me I have a lot of upside.”

Graham hopes to join a laundry list of former Hurricane tight ends that starred at the U and continued their success at the next level. Names like Bubba Franks, Kellen Winslow II, Jer-emy Shockey and Greg Olsen all made the seamless transition from playing on Saturdays to Sundays.

“I have been working most on my blocking because that is what all good tight ends must do, block down field,” Graham said. “I feel like I have just scratched the surface.”

Sharpton had a breakout senior campaign. He earned sec-ond team All-ACC honors after leading the Canes in tackles with 106. In Sharpton’s previous three seasons he had a combined 156 tackles. The 6-foot, 235 pound linebacker and Coral Gables High alum was named co-MVP

along with recent graduate Jason Fox.

“All week I have been work-ing on my foot work and drop-ping back in coverage,” Sharpton said. “I have been talking to [for-mer UM linebacker] Jon Beason and [current UM linebackers coach] Michael Barrow a lot and picked their brain.”

Sharpton emerged on the scene as he had 8.5 tackles for a loss, a forced fumble and the biggest play of his Canes career came against Duke in mid-No-vember. Sharpton recorded his first interception against Duke and scampered 73 yards down the left sideline for a touch-down.

Graham and Sharp-ton will represent the South team. The South team will be coached by Tony Spara-no, the head coach for the Miami Dol-phins. Gra-h a m

raved about Sparano’s teaching abilities and Sharpton has been working daily with Dolphins line-backers coach Bill Sheridan

Last year, Miami ended their streak of having at least one player drafted in the first round of the NFL draft for 14 straight years. The odds of them starting a new streak this coming April are very slim but Graham and Sharpton can improve their stock with strong performances Saturday af-ternoon.

“This hopefully is just the start of good things to come,” Sharpton said. “I will come back to UM after and train some more, go to the combine and then who knows what will happen in April.”

The Senior Bowl can be seen on the NFL Net-

work.

Justin Antweil may be contacted at jantweil@themiamihurricane.

com.

Senior Bowl looms for two former playersFOOTBALL

Pair hopes to make a sceneBY JUSTIN ANTWEILSPORTS EDITOR

THE FACTS WHAT: Senior BowlWHEN: Saturday at 4 p.m.WHO: Former players Jimmy Graham and Darryl SharptonWHY: To improve draft stock in front of scouts for April's NFL Draft HOW: Watch on NFL Network

READY FOR THE BIG TIME: Jimmy Graham (left ) and Darryl Sharpton (right) will play in

Saturday aft ernoon’s Senior Bowl.COURTESY KERWIN LONZOBILLY GILBERT // The Miami Hurricane

SPORTS 9.75the average margin of

defeat for the men’s basketball team

during its four game losing streak 6

the number of days away from college football national signing

day

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10 SPORTS THE MIAMI HURRICANE January 28 - February 1, 2010

SPORTS BRIEFSMEN’S BASKETBALL

Earlier this month the men’s basketball team helped out in the community by recon-structing a local Ronald McDonald house. Earlier this week the team volunteered several hours at the Miami Rescue Mission helping to serve meals. Several players also donated their shoes.

BASEBALLThe UM baseball team opens spring

practice Friday at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field. The team was ranked No. 16 by Baseball America in its preseason polls. The season opener is Friday Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. against Rutgers.

WOMEN’S TENNISThis weekend the women’s tennis team

plays in the ITA National Team Indoors. Other schools in the tournament are Boston Uni-versity, College of Charleston and Mississippi State. The matches will take place at the Neil Schiff Tennis Center.

Justin Antweil may be contacted at [email protected]

Information compiled from hurricanesports.com

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January 28 - February 1, 2010 THE MIAMI HURRICANE DEAR V 11

dear ...Dear V: Am I giving up too much on a fi rst date?

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Dear V,

I’ve never seen the problem with having sex on a first date. Surely in these post-feminist days women can follow their own honest desires. But my best friend says that’s why I can’t make a relationship last. Do you think there’s any real benefit in playing by ‘the rules’ and holding off?

Sincerely,

Too Fast?

Dear Too Fast,

This is one of those never ending questions: what time is the right time to give it up? This is a personal matter for every woman and ultimately you’ll have to decide for your-self, but in the meantime I do have a few tips. While many men are actually interested in a loving relationship, the real challenge is turning a man who wants just sex into a man who wants love. If you’re dealing with a dude who might just want the nookie, sleeping with him on the first date will leave him with all he wanted, and you alone again the next night. Guys who only want to get you in bed tend to leave as soon as they succeed and then move on to the next piece of ass they can find. If you think a guy could be more than a hookup and want to find out, you probably shouldn’t do the deed after your first dinner out. Guys like women who respect themselves; if you give it up too easily, he could take you for a one-night stand, but if you make him a wait a bit he’ll get to know you better and might find he wants more.

While your speediness in the bedroom could be causing some problems, it’s hard to say if this is what’s causing your failed relationships. Tons of women have sex on the first date and go on to have successful love lives, so don’t abandon your view altogether. Try to get a feel for the guy first and think about where you want things to go. If he seems like a respectable man, you don’t want to come off too slutty and scare him away. And if he’s only in it for the sexytime but you want more, try holding off to see if he’s willing to stick with it.

Best advice: try waiting and see if your relation-ships improve. If not, keep on having fun.

Best,

V

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